Exodus Chapter 19

At Mount Sinai

¹ The same day of the third month after Israel left Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. ² They’d set out from Rephidim and came to camp at the mountain. ³ Moses went up to God, and Yahveh called to him from the mountain,  

“Tell Jacob’s house, ⁴ ‘You’ve^pl seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to me. ⁵ If you’ll obey me and keep my covenant, you’ll be my special possession among the nations. The whole world belongs to, ⁶ but you’ll be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.’”

Ex 19:1-6

⁷ Moses called the elders and told them. ⁸ They answered together, “We’ll do everything Yahveh said.” Moses went back to tell him.

⁹ He told Moses, “I’ll come to you in a dark cloud so the people can hear when I speak to you and believe in you permanently.

¹⁰ “Go consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes ¹¹ and be ready on the third day. That day I’ll come down on Mount Sinai where they can see. ¹² Set up^f boundaries and say, ‘Don’t go up on the mountain or touch it. Execute^f whoever touches it. ¹³ Don’t touch^f them; stone^f them or shoot^f them. Human or animal won’t live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, the people are to come to the mountain.”

¹⁴ Moses came down from the mountain, consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵ He told them to be ready the third day and not to have relations with women.                                                                                            Ex 19:7-15  

¹⁶ The third morning, thunder and lightning came. A dark cloud came over the mountain, accompanied by a loud bugle blast. The people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ Moses brought them out of the camp to meet God at the foot of the mountain. ¹⁸ Smoke covered Mount Sinai because Yahveh came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like from a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently. ¹⁹ When the bugle blast got louder and louder, Moses spoke to God, and he answered him with thunder. ²⁰ He came down on Mount Sinai and called Moses up to the top of it.

²¹ “Go down and warn the people not to break through to stare and many of them perish. ²² Have the priests that come near to me^Y consecrate themselves so I don’t flare out against them.”  

²³ Moses told Yahveh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, because you warned us to set boundaries around it and consecrate it.”

²⁴ Yahveh said, “Go down and bring Aaron up. Don’t let the priests or the people break through to come up to me^Y, or I’ll flare out against them.”

²⁵ Moses went down and told them.

Ex 19:16-25